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Arthur Christmas (2011)

★ 6.8 · 1,624 ratings on TMDB

Ever wonder how 2 Billion presents get delivered all in 1 night?

Arthur Christmas poster★ 6.8

For hundreds of years, the Claus family has delegated the title "Santa" to a chosen few of its members, which can be passed down upon retirement. Each Christmas, Santa and his vast army of highly trained elves produce gifts and distribute them around the world in a one-night high-tech operation. However, when one of 600 million children to receive a gift from Santa on Christmas Eve is missed, it is deemed ‘acceptable’ to all but one—Arthur Claus, the current Santa’s misfit son deemed ineligible for the title, who executes an unauthorised rookie mission to get the last present halfway around th

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Arthur Christmas keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing technology, family, tradition, institution.

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Same subject, different rung

The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.